#icegiants — Public Fediverse posts
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Inside the ice giants, a layer exists of familiar rains and snows...and often at a pressure range that wouldn't require spacesuits! Could these planets harbor environments that are shockingly Earth-like?
More thoughts at my #blog: https://adamasnemesis.com/2025/12/14/another-earth-in-the-depths-of-neptune/
This post's featured image is Neptune and Triton seen on departure by Voyager 2.
#worldbuilding #science #astronomy #habitability #planetaryhabitability #icegiants #planetaryscience #gasgiants #atmospheres #oxygen
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Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus https://www.nasa.gov/general/planetary-alignment-provides-nasa-rare-opportunity-to-study-uranus/ #NASA #General #IceGiants #LangleyResearchCenter #PlanetaryScienceDivision #Uranus
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Interesting idea, and timely with recent Uranus probe discussions.
Preprint reports that regular cadence radio range data measurements to an Ice Giants probe during interplanetary travel, could yield some interesting gravitational wave (micro-Hz regime) science!
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Rings everywhere! My version of the latest image of Uranus from JWST!
Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2pnVhGY
Target: Uranus
NASA/ESA JWST Webb Space Telescope
Instrument: NIRCAM
Time: 2023-09-04
Filters: F140, F300, F210, F460
Proposal PI: Pontoppidan, Klaus M.
Proposal ID: 2739
Colourised near infrared imageCredit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck
#Uranus #IceGiants #Space #Astronomy #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks -
Regarding the #NewHorizons mission in the #KuiperBelt some more #LPSC2023-related links:
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1263.pdf On the Properties and Origin of Kuiper Belt Object #Arrokoth’s Large Mounds
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1286.pdf Is #TruePolarWander Recorded in #Pluto’s Ancient Geology?
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1787.pdf How Widespread are the Bladed Terrains on Pluto?
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/1549.pdf Exploring #IceGiants at High Phase with New Horizons
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20230314
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/03/14/pluto-team-updates-science-from-the-solar-systems-edge/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2023/03/15/the-latest-from-new-horizons/